does a friend owe you money? if so how much?

It's strangely timely that you should post this. A mate of mine recently did a TEFL course and buggered off to Spain to try and get work. I'm now getting texts from her asking me to put money in her bank account coz she's "desperate". I dunno what to do, I seem to only hear from her when she wants something and if I put money into her account how will she return it? What if she dosn't get a job? On the other hand I hate to think of her alone in another country with nobody else to ask.

Of course, I got my own back from "borrowing" a slightly bigger sum of money from him not long ago, which I have no intention whatsoever of paying back, because I'm a bastard.

a) me giving him an £1800 loan, or
b) me having to go and visit him in Chelmsford nick.

He is paying it off (I got £140 last night), but far too slowly for my liking. Unfortunately, the amount of money I lent him now means that I can't afford someone to go round and kneecap him for me. Oh well.

(that said, a friend recently voluntarily paid me back money she'd borrowed 5 years ago and which I'd written off)

meanwhile i say hello to another old friend - meester overdraaaft

But friend with art mag owes me £150 for two reviews, and will not get the copy he's assigned me until he COUGHS UP.

Freelance journalism is pants sometimes, there's only one title that's ever paid me on time in a consistent way. It angers me when, at lean times of the month, I accrue so many bank charges because of late fuckers I sometimes feel like I should invoice late-payers for reimbursement as is *impossible* to budget when people are flakey.

I'll have to call it in but I think there will be all sorts of delay tactics because she's a tightwad.

Another friend owes me $1000, another $2000 (to get him out of jail, no less), and yet another friend's parents owe me $1200... Apparently, I'm a soft touch, so if y'all need money, you know who to ask.

I should point out that I do trust bf, utterly.

oy, i owe my parents so much ...

Don't apologize for that. I would like my friend to pay me on an installment system (this was a part of our written agreements, but the schedule has slipped hopelessly). For Christmas (shortly after the eviction) I gave her a book on personal budgeting and finance, but have no idea if she's even read it.